[Skywarn] Weather radio

[Greg Williams]

A SAME weather radio is the best one for which you should invest. SAME  
(Specific Area Message Encoding) can be programmed to alert you for  
only certain counties rather than the ones that come on when the  
traditional tone alarm triggers it.

There are cheap weather radios without SAME and without NOAA's  
universal alert tone that's around $9.99 (Walgreens has one on sale I  
saw yesterday but it's like the old school transistor-style with AM-FM  
knobs and I didn't care for it) but the typical SAME household model  
will run about $40 & up.

Midland makes one that's on sale at Walmart and Kroger's for between  
$30-40 depending on where you go. I believe it's the WR-120. They have  
a tabletop and a handheld version for about $10 more (some places may  
be same price). The WR-300 has AM-FM radio built in.

I need to buy a new one because the one I have now (Radio Shack/ 
Realistic) has a 9V battery backup wire that came out and it doesn't  
work in a power outage. I like it because it lets me program the  
counties and what kinds of warnings I want to receive/reject (I don't  
think I need to hear about Volcano Warnings in Tennessee). It also  
mutes when the warning message has been read. I bought the first  
generation RS model SAME weather radio when they first came out in the  
late 90s and they were about $80 if I recall and didn't have some of  
the features they have now.

Now that I'm done rambling on, to recap, here's what to look for:
SAME technology
Auto-mute after the warning has been read
Selective alerts
Battery backup (or hand-crank)

Hope this helps.

Greg Williams
gregwilliams at knology.net
k4hsm at knology.net



On Apr 22, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Doug Lohrey wrote:

> Hi everybody
> I have a mobile handheld weather radio that I love but I was wanting  
> to get one for my house. Could anybody give me a heads up on a good  
> weather radio. Also what are some features that I should look for
> Thanks Doug
>
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